| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| August 23, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Ruins of the Convent of Las Monjas, Panama |
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Eadweard Muybridge, born Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1830-died Kingston-upon-Thames, England 1904, 1875, published 1877 albumen silver print · lifted from the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
| also in the bag: |
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Jar: Satsuma Ware Unknown, early to mid-1800s · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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"Titian's Schoolmaster" Giovanni Battista Moroni, c. 1575 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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The Company of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz Blaeuw in... Bartholomeus van der Helst, ca. 1640 - ca. 1643 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Delhi: a carpenter chipping at wood. Watercolour by an Indian painter. Unknown, [between 1800 and 1899?] · Wellcome Collection, London |
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Mancinelli Chiesa Giuseppe Mancinelli, before 1875 · Wikimedia Commons |
| The Line |
| "O fearful sufferer, and could'st thou kill Thy living orbs? I knew not; I did but follow His way; but mine the hand And mine the anguish." |
| Oedipus Rex, Sophocles |
| From the Vault |
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Wm. Calder's spectacular production, John Martin's secret by Sutton Vane, 1898-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Almaty is the most populous city in Kazakhstan, with more than two million residents. Lay low here. |
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